Language Classes in Washington, DC

This is a 6 week session focusing on the introduction to American Sign Language and Deaf Culture. You will develop a strong basic ASLary (OUR word for vocabuarly) ASL Structure, syntax, and grammar. Will learn numbers 1-100, visual discrimination, spatial referencing, practice fingerspelling and begin to understand the use of space and gestures. You...

Now that you have a base for ASL and Deaf culture, this course will take your language to a more intense level. You will be exposed to the importance of storytelling and comparing the differences between hearing and Deaf cultures, NMS and ASLary will be explored in greater depth and combined to show the grammatical features of American Sign Language....

From this level onwards you will be using your conversational skills and advance your proficiency in the language of ASL related to variety of topics. You will start identifying countries, learn about basic money and use classifiers to describe traveling all over the world! You will use classifiers to tell stories and focus on grammatical features...

Conversation classes use a “natural” conversation mode in order to increase fluency. Heavy concentration will be placed on telling stories that are clear, coherent, interesting and culturally appropriate. Note: If you have not taken a class with us before, please reach out for a placement interview. Additional Fee: Required $25 E-notes per...

Level 5 further instructs advanced grammar and syntax, while introducing semantics with focus on topicalization, conjunctions and distributional aspects. Note: If you have not taken a class with us before, please reach out for a placement interview. Additional Fee: Required $25 E-notes per semester to be purchased directly at SLC. The E-Notes...

Continue work on irregular verbs and present progressive. Introduction to the reflexive verbs for routine actions, and direct/indirect pronouns.

This is a 6 week session, building on the foundations of Level 1, you will continue to develop more ASLary while applying what you learned to real life situations.  You will learn numbers up to 500 (including time, duration, years, ordinal and cardinal) You will continue to focus on visual discrimination, spatial referencing, fingerspelling and...

You will be immersed in the world of Deaf culture by this class. You will be putting your visual prowess to test to utilize the skills that you learned form ASL Level 1-5, You will be seeing different ASL medias as films, vlogs, Deaf humor, current events platforms as politics, education, and social events. You will hone your skills in this course...

This course reviews present, present continuous, and near future.

This class reviews all material covered in the first 3 Introductory courses, and introduces the passé composé.

Continue reviewing preterit, and imperfect tenses. Introduce conditional, conditional perfect & future perfect tenses.​ Expand conversation skills, vocabulary & listening comprehension. In order to reduce paper waste and promote green practices, we provide materials in PDF format and encourage students to bring laptops and tablets to class...

Continue working on preterit and imperfect tenses, and expand vocabulary and conversational skills. Introduce future tense and conditional tense.​ In order to reduce paper waste and promote green practices, we provide materials in PDF format and encourage students to bring laptops and tablets to class to refer to the text. Students...

Review reflexive verbs, and introduce future and preterit tense for regular and key irregular verbs. Work on listening and conversation skills. In order to reduce paper waste and promote green practices, we provide materials in PDF format and encourage students to bring laptops and tablets to class to refer to the text. Students are responsible...

Conversation-based class for advanced students, incorporating grammar review of subjunctive tenses, but primarily focused on increasing/maintaining fluency. In order to reduce paper waste and promote green practices, we provide materials in PDF format and encourage students to bring laptops and tablets to class to refer to the text. Students are...

Can you introduce yourself and make a great first impression in Spanish? ¡Increíble!Beginner Spanish 2 is for you if you're familiar with the basics and can say simple sentences in the present tense WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR  Start here if you've already completed Spanish 1 with us, or if you've studied Spanish before and can confidently conjugate...